WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears
The World Health Organisation said it’s creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. The move could result in the...
Monkeypox outbreak ‘unusual, concerning,’ says WHO ahead of emergency meeting
The global outbreak of monkeypox is “clearly unusual and concerning”, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday as he announced to convene an emergency committee next week to assess...
Artificial light may become a new weapon in the fight to control malaria – ET HealthWorld
Pretoria: The world has not yet won the war against malaria. While the total number of cases has declined from about 81.1 cases per 1,000 population to 59 per 1,000...
Speakers at health conference object to WHO report on Covid deaths in India
The ongoing 14th conference of the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare (CCHFW) strongly objected to a WHO report estimating 4.7 million (47 lakh) Covid-related fatalities in India as...
WHO: COVID continues to decline, except in Americas, Africa
The World Health Organization said Wednesday that the number of newly reported coronavirus cases and deaths globally continued to fall in the last week, continuing a decline that first began...
2 New Omicron Subvariants Being Tracked
April 12, 2022The World Health Organization is analyzing a few dozen cases of two new sub-variants of the Omicron strain to determine how infectious and dangerous they might be, according...
Can Artificial Intelligence prevent movement of infectious diseases? – ET HealthWorld
By Dr Jaideep Jesson RayapudNew Delhi : In March 2020, after SARS CoV-2 was identified in Wuhan, China, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Since...
HHS and WHO Call for Renewed International COVID-19 Aid
April 8, 2022 – Now is not the time for the U.S. Congress to cut international COVID-19 funding, says Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, JD, because we're so...
Biological E to get mRNA technology from WHO to produce Covid-19 vaccines
City-based vaccine maker Biological E. Limited on Monday said the company was selected as a recipient of mRNA technology to produce COVID-19 vaccines from the World Health Organisation. A press...
World Tuberculosis Day 2022: History, theme, and significance
World Health Organization reports suggest 10.4 million individuals suffered from tuberculosis and 1.7 million people died in 2016. World Tuberculosis Day: A serious lung infection, tuberculosis (TB) is caused by a...